Fixing Stuttering or Skipping Audio

The troubleshooting information below is only relevant when using the BASS audio library as your Audio Driver.

If you are encountering stuttering or skipping audio, this is probably due to "buffer underrun", which means the program is not filling the playback buffer fast enough from disk. You should find this will be fixed if you choose not to use the SCS internal mixer. The default playback buffer size when using the internal mixer is 200ms (it has to be short), but when not using the internal mixer the default playback buffer size is 5000ms. Set the required options as follows:

·         Click on General Options / Permanent Options

·         Click on the Audio Driver tab

·         Select Do NOT use SCS internal mixer

·         Make sure the buffering and update options on this tab are all set to SCS default...

Then click OK to save the changes, and close and restart SCS.

ASIO

If you are using ASIO outputs and your sound card does not have a non-ASIO driver (ie does not have a WDM driver) then do not follow the above advice because ASIO is only available when using the SCS internal mixer. See the next topic, ASIO Problems, for more information.